2016 Maryland Primary

The 2016 Maryland Primary is held on Tuesday, April 26. I’ll be updating the results here on election night as the returns come in. On this page, you’ll also find information on how on many delegates are at stake and how each party awards them.

Primary Type
The Maryland primary is closed. Voters must be registered Democrats to vote in the Democratic primary or Republicans to vote in the Republican primary.

Delegate Award MethodologyDemocrats
Pledged delegates (95) are awarded proportionally based on statewide and district level vote totals. A 15% threshold is in place for all delegates. This means that a candidate must win at least 15% of the vote in a district or statewide election to be eligible for any delegates. Maryland is also allocated 23 superdelegates which are not pledged based on the primary outcome.

Republicans
All Maryland delegates (38) are awarded in the Republican primary. The GOP utilizes a winner-take-all system for awarding delegates. Three delegates are awarded in each congressional district (24 total) to the district winner, and 14 at-large delegates (including 1 bonus delegate and 3 RNC delegates) are awarded to the winner of the statewide vote.

All three district level delegates are awarded to the candidate receiving the most votes in each district.

Statewide delegates are awarded as follows.

If a candidate earns more than 50% of the statewide vote, then that candidate is awarded all 13 at-large delegates.

If no one gets more than 50% of the vote statewide, then the 13 at-large delegates are awarded proportionally to all candidates who receive at least 20% of the statewide vote.